July 17, 2008

Rambo

I watched this a while back (I'm insanely backlogged on blog posts). I'm really kinda 'mixed' on how I feel about this one. It was nowhere near as good as Rocky Balboa and I really didn't see the need to have another Rambo. Nor did it 'wrap up' the story for me at all. He doesn't die, he doesn't come back and trash the US military that made him who he is. However, it is the most realistic Rambo ever and it's highly visceral. I kinda like it just for the 'eww, did you see that?' factor..

Rocky has once again retired to the middle of nowhere hiding from the world. And he gets wrapped up in what happens to this group of missionaries, and suddenly he's Mr Bad-Ass again (reluctantly, of course). And, predictably enough, he's only a 'bad ass' in getting these people back. He's not interested in stopping the oppression per se. He just happens to wipe em out as a by-product. Which means if you've seen Rambo 2 or 3, you basically know the story, just transplant it to another location on the planet.

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